Canada, 2021
Abstract
This quick report analyse COVID-19 data publically available on the Canadian Government webiste to better understand infections, mortality rates, vaccination and variants over the pandemic. The goal of this report is to deomstrate an analysis pipeline can be outputed as a report, ready to share to colleagues and simplify communcaiton of results
The first cases of COVID-19, an infection caused by SARS-CoV-2, was
first discovered in 2019, and quickly spread across the globe. Since the
beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 has stressed healthcare systems,
leading to the implementation of various public health measures and
vaccination programs. In 2021, researchers and clinicians began to
discover increased rates of infeection and mortality being caused by
specific strains of COVID-19. These variants, named variants of concern
(VOCs), include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron.
This
report will use publically available data downloaded from the government
of Canada website to better understand key trends of COVID-19 during
2021. In doing so, this report will create informative tables and
figures for infections, mortality, and vaccination by province.
This report uses data from Canada in 2021. The report takes the data stratified by province.
The data used in this analysis is publically available and can be found at the Canadian Government webiste. Variables The variables of interest are infections, mortality and vaccination.
This report was conducted using r using packages from
the tidyverse. Descriptive characteristics of each metric,
stratified by province.
Figure 1. Infections and variants in 2021
The section below uses the package canmap to plot the
map of rates by province
Figure 3. Map of mortality rates
The vaccination program in Canada began in early 2021. The vaccination strategy differed from province to province, with some provinces giving second vaccinations 2 weeks after the first, while other province aimed to get the majority of the province partially vaccinated before the second dose. A wide range of vaccinations were used in Canada, including Johnson and Johnson, ….
As can be seen by figure X, within the first 6 months of the vaccination program, about 45% of individuals were vaccinated.
Figure 4. Proportion of vaccinated